Over recent years there has been tremendous progress in developing
low-temperature, solution-processible organic semiconductors that provide high
charge carrier mobilities for both n-type and p-type device operation, good
operational stability and other functionalities such as efficient
electroluminescene, sensing or memory functions for a variety of applications. We
are interested in understanding the spin and charge transport physics of these
materials and the relationship between molecular structure, microstructure and
spin and charge diffusion. In some state-of-the-art organic semiconductors
structural disorder effects can be reduced to a level where it is becoming
possible to study the more intrinsic limitations of charge transport in these
materials and observe transport regimes that have hitherto not been accessible.
In this talk I will give an overview over the physics of molecular and polymer
semiconductors and discuss their relevance for applications in large-area
electronics, thermoelectrics and spintronics.

Short
biography

Prof.
Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics
at the Cavendish Laboratory and works on the charge transport, photo- and
device physics of polymer and molecular semiconductors. He is co-founder of the
spin-off companies, Plastic Logic and Eight-19 Ltd, commercializing organic
transistor and organic solar cell technology, respectively.